Charles Jackson gets 17 years for Richmond pizzeria robbery

By
Jameson Cook, The Macomb Daily

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A 56-year-old man with prior convictions was sentenced last week to 17 to 27 years for robbing a Richmond pizzeria in April 2011.

Charles E. Jackson III of Smiths Creek received the sentence Oct. 17 from visiting Judge Denis LeDuc in Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens after he was convicted by a jury of armed robbery, felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

A gun-wielding Jackson robbed the Tivoli Pizzeria on April 29, 2011, during which three shots were fired, two by an employee trying to scare Jackson. He fled in a vehicle.

At the sentencing, Jackson maintained his innocence and complained that LeDuc also bound him over from 42-1 District Court in Romeo.

Jackson was arrested last April after DNA on a glove left at the scene matched his DNA, which was on file with Michigan State Police due to his priors.

Police in a search of his residence found orange goggles that matched those worn during the robbery. He also donned a homemade mask. His outfit was so unusual that employees initially thought he was playing a joke.

He was sentenced 15 to 25 years for the armed robbery and concurrently to two years for felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to two years for the two felony firearm convictions that were concurrent to each other but consecutive to the two other charges.

Jackson had prior convictions in St. Clair County for larceny, unarmed robbery, burglary and drug possession.